Flowers For Algernon
Trade Paperback
The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.
But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781857989380
- Author: Daniel Keyes
- Pub date: 01.07.09
- RRP: $24.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Daniel Keyes
Born in 1927 Daniel Keyes joined the US merchant marine aged 17. He won the Hugo for the short story that Flowers for Algernon was based on and the Nebula for the novel itself. He has a masters degree in English and American literature and is a Professor of English and Creative writing. He lives in America.
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